I don't see a sub-forum for void and I'm new to this forum. I don't have a Reddit account for years and I don't wish to make one, void should have a on site forum but I guess this will have to do. I'm moving from Gentoo after about 3 years as I've it's a time sink compiling which I simply don't have time for anymore . I'm looking to find the compilation of distro software and updating like what gentoo has but with the benefit of being a mostly binary disto which I don't have to waste time compiling anymore. One problem switching to the distro though. The directions for setting up xbps-src (the source version of the distro) is hosted on a third party git repo called github. Github is now owned by Microsoft and hosted on their servers. I wish to avoid them and use alternative sources/mirrors like gitlab but I've only manage to find those to be 4 years old. Is there any mirror to https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages that will work?

void hangs out on freenode to talk to the developers or maintainers. The person that is the head honcho finally came back from wherever he disappeared to.

thanks for the info. I'm having other problems with void which probably would've been a lot more easier with Gentoo (package manager hangs with no error, grub takes forever to install with no clue on why unless you edit some binaries). I'll probably be coming back to gentoo but I'll be changing my flags and tarball to the mainstream ones that everyone chooses, not hardened with 20 some cflags and 30 some use flags, and hope that will not be a waste of time.
I'll go through to the freenode to try and to talk with him on this.

I've had to real issue (lately) with VOID, installed easily enough, grub too. using there method to make packages is a bother to me, though everything I use is already in there repos just maybe one or two things, so I just use configure, make , make install and be done with it. unless you where talking about Gentoo.

it has a very fast boot time as well.